Opinion

Residents of Helper, Spring Glen, Carbonville, Kenilworth, Scofield and Clear Creek now receiving mail delivery from routes out of the Helper post office should be aware of plans by the Salt Lake District of the Postal Service to transfer the routes ...

This past week I ran into three situations in which the government is once again either inefficient, ineffective or getting in the way of private business. In two cases the problems appear to be local; in another case it is federal. But to be honest ...

Well, it finally happened. The Federal Bureau of Land Management, with the consent of Carbon County Commissioners and cooperation from the Bill Barrett Corporation, closed off tens of thousands of acres of public lands in Carbon County. The gates wer...

This March, federal prosecutors charged six members of an antigovernment group called the Alaska Peacemakers Militia with plotting to wage a campaign of murder and kidnapping against court officials and state troopers. They had already amassed an ars...